You don’t get much more brilliant than Eddie Izzard when it comes to comedy, especially this bit from Dress to Kill wherein he bemoans his early French learnings for their uselessness.
“La souris est en dessous la table, le chat est sur la chaise et le singe est sur la branche!” - Eddie Izzard
He had me […]
Archive for December, 2006
On useful vocabulary
Published by December 19th, 2006 in RL Practice, Humor, Vocabulary and ChinesePod. 0 CommentsI’ll be home for… Giftmas?!
Published by December 18th, 2006 in Humor and Regional/cultural. 11 CommentsSee that? That’s my big gun and I’m not afraid to use it. Oh, yes, my friends. I’m a card-carrying poet and author and my blatant disregard for grammar and punctuation are legendary. In fact, in my first major book release, Valley of Shadows (Cove Press, 2004), my rampant comma usage became so widespread that […]
Congratulations. It’s an apostrophe.
Published by December 15th, 2006 in Humor, Regional/cultural and ChinesePod. 12 CommentsCan’t. Won’t. Couldn’t. Wouldn’t. Shouldn’t.
What do all of the words above have in common, aside from a resounding negativity? Yes, they all apply to my ex-fiancée, but more importantly, they’re all contractions. (For those non-native speakers, a contraction is an often-useful tool in English wherein we take two words and smash them together so hard […]
So. You all know that I’m the author/artist behind the wildly popular and soon-to-be bestselling book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing Basics, and by now you’ve bought a copy or three to give away at Giftmas. (Thanks for that, by the way.) But in case there’s any stragglers out there who haven’t yet had […]
